The topic of snowplowing came up a few days ago in a work meeting with a client in southern California, where they were getting snow for the first time in about three or more decades. I jokingly offered to put my “snow rig” on a trailer and send it out to him. As I told that story later to some friends, they asked about my “snow rig”. Here it is. My tractor is a 40 horsepower John Deere 4044R, a …
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The roads to our house is 1.7 miles long, from pavement to our dooryard. My neighbor and I are basically the only two humans that perform any sort of maintenance on it. Another young fellow helps out with some repairs when it gets bad but his job prevents him from doing much of anything in terms of snow removal and related tasks, so that leaves it to two old geezers. We split the cost of what we thought was a …
It is impossible to understand mud season in northern New England without experiencing it. I’ve traveled what by now must be thousands of miles on dirt roads, but I’ve never experienced anything like mid-March into April in Maine. A road that’s as solid as concrete from May through February becomes oozing, brown porridge as Spring approaches, and stays that way for weeks. Passing over this goo in a vehicle produces ruts deep enough to bury a vehicle up to the …